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What I did at Recurse Center

Article URL: https://thill.me/2026/09/11/what-i-did-at-rc.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869773 Points: 11 # Comments: 4

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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

Article URL: https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

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Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi

Article URL: https://loficities.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869574 Points: 25 # Comments:...

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Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chowning Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869142 Points: 4 # Co...

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SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nvne3LzBls Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868831 Po...

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Ember-1

Article URL: https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868830 Points: 34 #...

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Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up fields from 71% to 20%

Article URL: https://earnanhonestdollar.com/bench Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868753 Points: 1...

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OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website

Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNC...

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Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

Article URL: https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment

"AI is the devil and I its maker."

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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/27/openai-halts-training-of-latest-models-as-reports-mount...

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There are no "rogue" AI agents

Article URL: https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

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TechCrunch Mobility: AV companies pick their lanes

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is p...

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Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out

Did you ever click on an “AI Arena” expecting glorious battle and instead get a boring benchmark? If so, this proje...

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postmarketOS Rebrand: Nura

Article URL: https://nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867553 ...

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The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures

Article URL: https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html Comments URL: https://news.y...

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Sennheiser Momentum 5 review: Great sound, incredible battery life, and few compromises

I spent the last few weeks with the Sennheiser Momentum 5 to determine if this pair actually stands out, testing everyth...

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"They had no concept of a duty of care to their users."

Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/they-had-no-concept-of-a-duty-of-care-to-their-users/ Comments URL: https://ne...

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10 Tells of a Slop UI

Article URL: https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/10-tells-of-slop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

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Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey

Article URL: https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/we-have-found-traces-of-peace-thousands-of-years...

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In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

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Show HN: I spent 10 months building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web

I've spent the last 10 months building Beauty: a local, powerful greco-roman Markdown editor where the page looks finis...

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Ten Lines of Code That Changed My World

Article URL: https://pixelambacht.nl/2026/ten-lines-of-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4986653...

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Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

Article URL: https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/ Comments URL: https...

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Why OLPC’s $100 laptop never stood a chance

The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer? For a bunch...

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The smart home graveyard is getting crowded

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the fragile...

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Googlebooks might be the real deal

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 145, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here...

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Best Party Speakers (2026): JBL, Sony, Marshall, and More

These speakers combine serious volume, big bass, portability, and the occasional karaoke session to bring the party anyw...

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What’s the Best Pet DNA Test? We Tested the Most Popular Ones

I sent my cats’ saliva to the lab to get health and genetic insights sent to my inbox—with very different results.

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How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war

The Smithsonian has faced withering pressure from the Trump administration. ...